Individual under arrest for providing explosive substances to the perpetrator responsible for the Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing incident.
TITLE: Feds Nab Collaborator of Fertility Clinic Bomber, Suspect Provided Explosive Chemicals
LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities nabbed a Washington state man, Daniel Park, 32, charged with aiding the bomber of a Palm Springs fertility clinic in May. Park allegedly provided chemicals used to make explosives and visited California to experiment with them months prior to the attack.
The two men, connected over shared anti-procreation beliefs in fringe online forums, are believed to have targeted the American Reproductive Centers. The fertility clinic blast gutted the facility and shattered nearby building windows, officials branding it terrorism and possibly the largest bomb scene in Southern California history. The clinic was closed, and no embryos were harmed.
Guy Edward Bartkus, the bomber, died in the May 17 explosion. Park was apprehended at JFK Airport in New York on Tuesday after his extradition from Poland, where he fled four days after the attack. Park faces charges of providing material support to terrorists.
Park amassed ammonium nitrate, a chemical useful for explosives, for years before shipping it to Bartkus and visiting him in Twentynine Palms, California, for bomb-making experiments in Bartkus’ family's garage.
In federal court Wednesday in Brooklyn, Park waived his right to a detention hearing, and Judge Cheryl Pollak ordered him detained, citing potential danger. He will be transferred to California, with a probable cause hearing scheduled there.
A Trove of Explosive Chemicals
Authorities raided Park's home in Kent, Washington, uncovering large quantities of explosive chemicals and handwritten notes detailing chemical explosive equations, among other findings.
Park shipped 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate to Bartkus in January and procured another 90 pounds for the bomber days before the blast, investigators said. Park also bought ammonium nitrate online in several transactions from October 2022 to May 2025.
Three days before visiting Bartkus in January, Bartkus reportedly asked an AI chat application about explosives, discussing the creation of the most powerful possible blast.
At the bomb site, traces of ammonium nitrate were discovered, though it could not be definitively determined as the primary explosive component.
Sharing an Anti-Life Philosophy
Park and Bartkus bonded over a shared disdain for human existence in online forums devoted to the anti-natalist movement, authorities said. Anti-natalism is a fringe theory opposing childbirth and population growth and contending that people should refrain from procreation.
Bartkus deliberately attacked the American Reproductive Centers, providing services to help people get pregnant, such as in vitro fertilization and fertility evaluations. Bartkus took responsibility for the attack on a website, stating, "Basically, I'm anti-life. And IVF is like the epitome of pro-life ideology."
Officials have not specified whether Bartkus intended to die in the attack or why he chose that specific facility. Park, a frequent poster in an anti-natalist Reddit forum since high school, was identified as recruiting others to the movement, authorities said.
- The suspected collaborator of the fertility clinic bomber, Daniel Park, was connected with the bomber over a shared anti-natalist philosophy on fringe online forums, which advocates against childbirth and population growth.
- In addition to the charges related to the fertility clinic bombing, evidence uncovered during a raid on Park's home in Kent, Washington revealed a trove of explosive chemicals, handwritten notes detailing chemical explosive equations, and purchases of ammonium nitrate online, indicating a potential long-term interest in health-and-wellness related terrorism, specifically mental health and general-news related to crime-and-justice.
